Reader [Eric Mockler] brought Louis “Lebel” Wichinsky to our attention, a colorful inventor he ran into some years back in the Borscht Belt of Upstate New York. Described as a Mel Brooks doppelgänger, ...

Daniel Thompson, the California inventor who created the automated bagel machine and changed breakfast in America forever, died this month at the age of 94. Though not everyone looks on his legacy ...

What would our world be without bagels? What would become of our breakfast routine, our lox and cream cheese, our sense of identity as New Yorkers or denizens of Montreal? That’s a tough question to ...

It once took time and tradition to make a bagel. A baker had to roll the dough, coil it into circles, boil it, and pop the product into an oven until the bagels were glossy and brown. And not just any ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Today, the bagel is a celebrated culinary New York City fixture. Along with the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the ...

There's a lot of debate about who makes the best bagel in America, and it's thanks to Daniel Thompson that bagel snobs nationwide are able to have this discussion. Thompson, who died on September 3 in ...

Among a certain class of New York culinary snobs, the perfect bagel is the subject of fervent — almost religious — devotion. They deliver long-winded polemics about the benefits of their particular ...

Daniel Thompson — a longtime Palm Desert resident whose ingenuity led to the mass production of bagels — died in Rancho Mirage on Sept. 3. He was 94. The lifelong inventor died as a result of a head ...